A thought: it may be that just the task of knowledge engineering
Watson-class systems for a particular domain will lead to new
insights. Might not have to wait for Watson to start inferences, or
during the debugging processes; just the task of thinking through
*how* to organize resources for Watson to deal with them is, itself,
an important learning opportunity. (01)
Jack (02)
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ron Wheeler
<rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 25/02/2011 3:42 PM, Adrian Walker wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Here's a thought I have not seen discussed so far in the various excellent
> threads about Watson.
>
> Watson is of course a major achievement, as it demonstrated by comfortably
> winning Jeopardy.
>
> It's now official that IBM sees Watson has having potential in Medicine --
> it could read the biological-medical literature and outperform the Doctors.
>
> However, for these purposes, there's a key difference between Jeopardy and
> Medicine.
>
> In Jeopardy, humans know the right answers -- the city of Toronto is not in
> the USA.
>
> In Medicine, humans don't have consensus answers to new questions (e.g. What
> is the best treatment for multiple sclerosis). So, whatever algorithms
> Watson uses will lead to new medical knowledge that humans cannot easily
> check by thought experiments.
>
> Perhaps evidence-based medicine over structured data may help to to check
> Watson's new medical knowledge?
>
> Of course, if Watson could produce English explanations of its answers, that
> could help too.
>
> It appears that Watson can give you a lot of insight into how it arrived at
> an answer including the various parallel processes that were done.
> It probably can do a much better job of this than most humans since we
> quickly forget the bad ideas and fruitless paths whereas Watson remembers
> them all.
>
> Ron
>
> Just a Friday afternoon thought.
>
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